Title and imprint from ISTC; date from colophon ([31]₇ recto): Mit rimen schlecht drei genge. Seint dise lider worden. Gemessen in rechter lenge. Weise vn[d] wort nach maisterlichem orden. Zu kurtz zu lang ein liet vil wol smachet. Ich wolfram bin vnschuldig, Ob schreiber recht vnrichtig machet. .M.CCCC.LXXXVII.

Signatures: [1-14¹⁰ 15¹⁰⁺¹ 16-29¹⁰ 30⁸ 31¹⁰] ([31]₉-[31]₁₀ blank; all leaves unsigned).

Chancery folio; bull's head and "P" watermarks; [1]₁ recto: 40 lines, 215 x 153 mm; type: 107 with some 107 majuscules filed down to 100; initial spaces with guide letters and spaces for illustrations.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 59 (IB. 558)

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, W70

Incunabula short title catalogue, iw00070000

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.404.63 FOLIO with initial on [1]₁ rubricated in red and brown, with flourishes into the margins. Initials and capital strokes rubricated in red throughout, with one initial in blue. First leaf of each gathering numbered in early manuscript. Leaf dimensions: 294 x 215 mm, with some deckles intact.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.404.63 FOLIO with early inscription on front flyleaf recto: "[illegible] historia sine authore." Shelf mark(?) "N. 11" on same leaf.

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.404.63 FOLIO bound in ca. 19th-century brown pigskin tooled in blind. Title stamped in gilt on the spine. Modern vellum pastedowns. Early paper flyleaves with bull's head watermark. Manuscript waste sewing guards. Purchased from Albi Rosenthal in Feb. 1939.

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